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Logitech Harmony 950http://www.hometheaterequipment.com/threads/8975-Logitech-Harmony-950?goto=newpost
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 01:36:42 GMTJust picked up a Logitech Harmony 950 to replace my 6 or 7 year old Harmony Touch. It's the same remote that's used in the $350 Elite package, but I don't need the Hub thing so I really didn't want to get that. I almost did buy it last weekend cause it was on sale for under $300 and Best Buy was out of 950's which were at their normal $250 price. This week they're on sale for $180 and were back in stock, sort of. I got the last one on the rack at my local store.

My old Harmony Touch is basically the same layout/design as the Ultimate and Ultimate One packages. I got it as a good faith out of warranty replacement for my original Harmony One from 2009 that was a victim of Logitech's known and documented swollen battery issue. The batteries were replaceable rechargeable packs and they had a batch that was swelling in various models and couldn't be removed due to the swelling. I always hated having important play/pause/rewind/etc. controls above the screen though and the 950 places them back where the Harmony One had them and also has the motion activated backlighting which I've really missed.

Setup was pretty easy. The software copied all my devices/activities over well enough. I had to add all my custom button settings back to the physical and touch screen locations in all the activities though (like adding my receiver's audio modes to the touch screen). I was slightly annoyed that stuff wouldn't copy over since both remotes had similar buttons and a touch screen. Took me probably 20 minutes to add everything back in to 7 activities and verify against the old remote.
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